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05/06/05 19:24
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#93139 - X10-alike, I suppose?
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Vignesh Prasad said:
Geert, will it be viable for you? Do Belgian Electricity rules/regulations allow these kinds of communication thru power lines?

Regards,
Vignesh.


Hi Vignesh,

I guess you're talking about something similar (or like) X10? This is known here in Belgium and it's allowed too. But for me, it has at least one big disadvantage (as far as I could judge the system):
Everywhere where you want to have, for instance, an outlet switched on or off, you have to add additional hardware (or inside, or outside) the outlet and that's really not something I want.

Next to this, I heard it's quite sensitive for disturbances on the net. If you, for instance, switch on a raiser machine, that introduces lots of spikes on the power line. That alone, seems to be enough to have, carefully spoken, strange side effects on the installation.

But once again, I'm not speaking out of experience, only of reading what it can do and hearing what other people experienced with it.

I still prefer to have everything switcheable in the fuse box, by means of relays.

Best rgds,

--Geert

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Your opinion about port config pls.            01/01/70 00:00      
   Its irrelevant            01/01/70 00:00      
      Can you clearify pls?            01/01/70 00:00      
         always            01/01/70 00:00      
   More....            01/01/70 00:00      
      Elementary, my dear Watson            01/01/70 00:00      
   Some reference circuits I've looked at            01/01/70 00:00      
      fittness for purpose            01/01/70 00:00      
         I'd second that            01/01/70 00:00      
         The intention is...            01/01/70 00:00      
            on-board, I hope            01/01/70 00:00      
               I2c is forbidden to leave the board...            01/01/70 00:00      
                  I would'nt            01/01/70 00:00      
   The outside world            01/01/70 00:00      
      Sure, you did! ;-)            01/01/70 00:00      
         Multi controller approach.            01/01/70 00:00      
            Some practical restrictions...            01/01/70 00:00      
               concentrate the data            01/01/70 00:00      
               Something like this.            01/01/70 00:00      
                  maybe not needed            01/01/70 00:00      
                     RS485 Stubs.            01/01/70 00:00      
                        two of the same            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Re: Two of the same.            01/01/70 00:00      
                              you are right            01/01/70 00:00      
                  let Geert do it differently            01/01/70 00:00      
                     on data and star            01/01/70 00:00      
                        bus and star            01/01/70 00:00      
                     I prefer 75176 -> RS485 & 75179 -> RS422            01/01/70 00:00      
                        I've got a lot of 75176s in my drawer :)            01/01/70 00:00      
                           What about CAN?            01/01/70 00:00      
                              CAN            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 CAN            01/01/70 00:00      
                                    CAN CAN            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 Challenges, indeed...            01/01/70 00:00      
                                    I would            01/01/70 00:00      
                                    how about Power Line Communications?            01/01/70 00:00      
                                       X10-alike, I suppose?            01/01/70 00:00      
                                          Ya..            01/01/70 00:00      
                                             Always welcome...            01/01/70 00:00      
                                             oops !!!            01/01/70 00:00      

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